May 2013

I was trying to clone the thrift repository at a clients office when this problem occurred.
Upon some Googling, I got this really useful link (thanks to Emil Sit)
which explained how git can be used over an http proxy for those git servers
which don’t allow http method as an alternate/bypass to the git protocol.
Okay, so here’s what’s needed to be done;

Typed in the below lines (quoted) into a shell script called git-proxy and put it in $(HOME)/bin directory.
Of course; its executable bits has to be set with: chmod a+x $(HOME)/bin/git-proxy.

Note: I replaced proxy.yourcompany.com with appropriate proxy-server details
for my organization and the value for _proxyport with an appropriate value
used in my organization (instead of the default 3128).

Apache Maven is a project management software, managing building, reporting and documentation of a Java development project. In order to install and configure Apache Maven on CentOS, follow these steps.

First of all, you need to install Java 1.7 JDK. Make sure to install Java JDK, not JRE.

Then go ahead and download the latest Maven binary from its official site. For example, for version 3.0.4: